CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) Kitty (2014) User Reviews

The Virtual Woman

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 20 December 2023]

When the wife of the powerful owner of the Tangiers Lee Berman is found murdered with three shots, he becomes the prime suspect. LVPD stop his car and find a 9mm pistol inside. Nick processes his hands and finds gunpowder on them, and Lee is arrested. Meanwhile, Greg and Finn process his smart house and the victim Audrey. Russell arrives at the crime scene and is updated by Greg that the couple appear to have problems and Lee was sleeping in another room. Russell finds Lee's laptop with the photo of a beautiful woman. He takes a picture with his cellphone, but a virus destroys and shutdown the notebook. Meanwhile, the FBI Agent Avery Ryan of the Cyber Crimes Division travels to Las Vegas, since she is tracking down "Kitty", the woman that Lee Berman had contacted. She watches his interrogation by Brass in LVPD and asks Acklie to assume the interrogation. She tells Lee that she is interested in Kitty only and asks if he opened a virtual "gift" from Kitty. He denies, but she can see that he is lying. Then she visits the CSIs and introduces herself to them. She shows that Kitty is not real, but an Avatar with artificial intelligence, and she is hunting down her creator. Avery also recovers Lee's notebook and the evidence show the CSIs that Lee is not the killer of his wife. When Lee leaves the custody, he sees Kitty in the reception of LVPD, increasing the mystery.

"Kitty" is a great episode of "CSI", with the participation of the guest stars Patricia Arquette, Gil Bellows and Torrey DeVitto. The plot deserved to be longer, since the storyline is excellent, but the conclusion is rushed. Patricia Arquette's character Avery Ryan steals the show with her knowledge of cybercrimes. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Kitty"

Great Directionin this episode

[ashlapiwape · 10/10 · 1 May 2014]

First its required 10 lines for a TV episode review is a bit much. So for the episode the direction was so obviously different and wonderful from almost any episode I can think of. The upward angles quite reminiscent of Michael Bay productions. It was clean and crisp giving a revitalization from the average and too often consistent pace of the show. One of the episodes I have watched in a while. Now a complaint not about the episode but why does IMDb still list Laurence Fishburne as Marg Helgenberger as starring in this show. Fisburne has been gone for years now. They need to make corrections to bring the show cast into the future. Back to direction I hope Eagle Egilsson directs again soon and often.

Horrible episode, horrible character, horrible pilot

[guss-77 · 1/10 · 16 October 2014]

This episode is basically the Pilot to a new series starring Patricia Arquette (Agent Ryan) and it feels like something completely unrelated to the regular CSI world.

Warning "spoiler" (I can't see how I can spoil this more than the episode itself, but whatever).

This whole episode was a shrine to Agent Ryan who is a horrible Marry Sue (all Mary Sue's are terrible, but it takes a special kind of Mary Sue to be so smug about it) - she knows everything, she is brilliant both in the lab and in the interrogation room, she is so brave to confront an armed criminal in the field and she can also kicks butt (she didn't need the SWAT team to break in - she disarmed the criminal herself). The regular CSI team is just the backdrop in this episode, half the cast only have one scene with a couple of lines, and they all fade to the background with the brilliance of Ryan.

Aside from that, the usual gripes: The technical references are completely silly, the criminal's behavior makes no sense, the ending is stupid.

If you skip one CSI episode in your life, make sure its this one.

Two episodes like this back-to-back and I'd stop watching permanently

[unsolicited-2 · 1/10 · 10 June 2014]

Oh, dear Lord, was this episode awful. Trite, cut-from-the-headlines PC trendy, full of glaring technical nonsense, led by an unpalatable new character, and clearly a pilot for a "circling the drain from day one" new series. The lead character is a prime example of that most irritating of tropes, the human lie detector, capable of detecting the minor tics, sweating, and surreptitious glances so that she can almost read the mind of the suspect. This was trite when Frank Herbert did it with the Bene Gesseret in Dune, and it hasn't improved with time. Typically, the character will come across as an arrogant know-it-all, and Patricia Arquette nails that result. To show a simple (but spoiler explicit) example of bad plot development: the FBI agent releases a picture of the house of the woman used as a model for an online avatar, thus "exposing her" to the antagonist. Apparently, we are supposed to believe that the "cyber criminal" can create a full human response computer avatar, but cannot figure out where the woman whose image he is using lives. Seriously watches like something written as a bad piece of junior high fan fiction. Utter waste of time. You should feel stupider for having watched it. I certainly do.

Worst CSI episode to date

[durou-hugo · 2/10 · 6 May 2014]

I like changes and bold decisions when it comes to 14-years old TV shows... and this episode has truly some interesting direction ideas. Yet, it packs ridiculous depiction of cyber-forensic, with CSI-Miami-esque tag-lines. The top 2 annoying parts are 1. the performance of Patricia Arquette (you have to see it to believe someone can get paid to do that), 2. the super-cheesy "victim" -- not that the actress plays poorly, but that the character is at once a pure, courageous mother of two, and a loving wife of a war hero awaiting his return, and that she has to say so a dozen time so we can understand who is the good guy. Thanks for the subtle hints !

I sincerely hope the writers did such an episode because they had lost some bet, or because they want this show to end. In the latter case, it sure makes this eventuality less painful.

My least favorite episode of my favorite show

[swiftestfox · 1/10 · 12 April 2020]

This seems more like a parody of CSI then an actual episode. The entire thing is hard to watch from the FBI agents squabbling over a plane, to the FBI gal outting Hodges for embarrasing web browsing to the "Human lie detector bit". The part where "Kitty" is fooled by typing a question mark over and over and her face peels away.... it was hackers level bad.

I loved Hackers, but that was a movie made in the early days of the internet and presented to people who honestly didn't know much about it. This episode was cringe worthy and felt like someone who has no idea what the dark web is like decided to take a stab at it in a time when high schools are teaching classes on it. The dark web isn't fantasy, its real. You can decide that elves have rounded ears if you want because they aren't real, but you can't just make up details about things that exist and pass them off as smart television.

So bad that it's almost funny

[koohii · 2/10 · 5 June 2021]

Obviously a pilot for a crappy spin-off that's doomed to failure because it is written by people who don't understand the internet, or computers at all, for people who don't understand the internet or computers at all. Even back when I was learning BASIC and PASCAL, this computer simulation would have seemed amazingly pretty, but technically stupid.

Patricia Arquette seemed to be having difficulty articulating the truly horrid script, and came across more as a dubious wannabe actor than as a Lead Actor. I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to have this performance as the anchor point for a show--it's more of an anchor around the show's neck.

Embarrassingly poor all around episode. It's easy to understand why the show itself was ending.

Cheap Transitional Episode

[Hitchcoc · 5/10 · 3 April 2021]

Once again, another new spinoff. Here we have Patricia Arquette playing one unlikeable character. She, of course, is a cyber expert who feels the normal work of the CSI's is superfluous because she knows everything. The main problem is the absolute impossibility of any of this actually taking place. Don't bother with this if it shows up later.

Worst episode ever

[ethdyer · 1/10 · 14 November 2021]

I dont even know what to say man, this was awful. The new lady's character is terrible and unlikeable. No wonder the spinoff only made it 2 seasons in with how awful it was.